I did a search yesterday for survey sites or programs. Limesurvey seems to be the best option given that it's free and fully functional. All the other ones have all sorts of limitations because they want you to buy their product. Although I will need to setup a server to run limesurvey on myself.

But I thought to begin with, a demo survey could be done with google form and aimed at a small target audience just within my network of people I can reach through the forums I am active in.

I didn't think the idea was original. I did do a small search after reading your post and found a few surveys done by various space organisations though their topics didn't cover what I was interested in.

I can see 2 major issues. One will be practically nobody thinking that this is important and would be something quite handy for our collective success as a "space activity supporting crowd". The other issue is that I suck at following through with my dumb ideas.

I added your suggestions for title into the document, also if anyone else here is interested, just visit the document and can enter your own suggestions or questions.

Almost all surveys that I can recall were focused more on "what do you think of space (from a cost benefit perspective)", or "would you like to go to space (as a customer, or government astronaut, etc.)" but not from the perspective of would you want to be a participant in an open collaborative space effort. I think this is mostly because up until recently it wasn't conceived as possible.

I was thinking that I propably should combine the survey with a "infographic" type of thing that would include information about each topic I am asking the questions about.

So for instance questions about hardware or software tinkering could start with information about makrespaces or online places where people involved in such things get together.

Or the social networking part would include information or links about places like spacefellowship or moonmars etc...

I am just trying to think of how to make the survey more entertaining or useful for the person who is filling it in, so they are more likely to go all the way through if it ends up long. Also the less boring it is the more likely people will tell other people in their networks about it.